English Dictionary

watch

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈwɒt͡ʃ/

名詞

A portable or wearable timepiece. / The act of guarding and observing someone or something. / A particular time period when guarding is kept.

日本語の意味

携帯型または身に着ける時計（懐中時計、腕時計など） / 誰かや何かを警戒・監視する行為（見張り、監視） / 警備や見張りが行われる特定の時間帯

I glanced at my watch and realized I was late for the meeting.

私は腕時計をちらりと見て、会議に遅れていることに気づいた。

意味（1）

A portable or wearable timepiece.

Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.

意味（2）

The act of guarding and observing someone or something.

shepherds keeping watch by night

意味（3）

A particular time period when guarding is kept.

The second watch of the night began at midnight.

意味（4）

A period of wakefulness between the two sleeps of a biphasic sleep pattern (the dead sleep or first sleep and morning sleep or second sleep): the first waking.

意味（5）

A person or group of people who guard.

The watch stopped the travelers at the city gates.

意味（6）

The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.

He upbraids Iago, that he made him Brave me upon the watch.

意味（7）

(nautical) A group of sailors and officers aboard a ship or shore station with a common period of duty: starboard watch, port watch.

意味（8）

(nautical) A period of time on duty, usually four hours in length; the officers and crew who tend the working of a vessel during the same watch. (FM 55–501).

意味（9）

The act of seeing, or viewing, for a period of time.

A quick watch of Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange sends this reality home fast. Amoral, vacuous, cold-blooded, unsympathetic, and chillingly evil describe only parts of the story.

watches （ plural ）